Who's Whacky Now?

Photos by Peter Fletcher The protesters handed out flyers, waved upside-down American flags and drew horn-honks from passing motorists on Sunset Boulevard. They called out Marc Cooper to answer for an article he had written about Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney on December 12th.
Click here to read the original article.
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Photos by Peter Fletcher LA Weekly's Ozzie Rosales:
"Basically they were offended by this one sentence calling the 9/11 an 'inside job by our government conspiracy,' the 'whack-job 911 Truth movement' and claimed Marc Cooper did not do enough investigative reporting to make this claim official."
The following day, Marc Cooper blogged about the protest:
"I think I'm flattered. I mean, these folks (you will notice) went to the trouble of having professionally printed signs for this absurd exercise. In the end, it's all about having all the right enemies -- though I clearly have earned more worthy opponents than these poor creatures.
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Photos by Peter Fletcher Marc Cooper quote that set these folks off:
"She was one of the first high-profile adherents of the official whack-job '9/11 Truth' movement, directly implicating the U.S. government in the staging of the attack on the Twin Towers."
Read the original Marc Cooper column here.
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Photos by Peter Fletcher From Marc Cooper's blog entry about the protest:
"If only they had known that, at the precise moment of their demo, I was actually on board an American Airlines flight between JFK and LAX! What sort of spectacular species of suppositions might have been drawn from that nugget of knowledge? But, then again, the word knowledge usually doesn't pop up in any graph containing the words 9/11 Truth, does it?"
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